Connect an existing repository

To start managing your existing repositories with the web interface, you need to first make Subversion Edge aware of their location.

1. Depending on how you choose to connect your repositories, do one of the following:
   • In the main navigation bar, select Administration. In the Server Settings page, provide the path to your repositories in the Repository Directory field.
   • Manually move your repositories into the default parent repository directory - /data/repositories in the location where you installed CollabNet Subversion.
2. Select Repositories in the main navigation bar and click Discover.

   Your existing repositories are listed. When you visit this page for the first time after a repository is discovered, you might see a message about fixing repository permissions on a Linux system. Subversion Edge requires that repository files and directories be writable, which may not be the case with imported repositories.

3. If filesystem permission changes are required, do the following:
   1. Select the repository and click Info. You'll see an example of the command for the fix.
   2. Apply the fix and click Validate Permissions.